I’ve never used a plugin to achieve this so I honestly couldn’t tell you. However, I’ve just done a quick local test on Metrolium and we could add this for you quite easily and we were already planning to do it as we think other users would also like this option. Ignore the image quality as I just stretched existing ones for the purpose of the test but see this screenshot to show you the Masonry style on my quick test: http://cloud.euged.com/image/3z0J2N0q2X1l

That’s the portfolio, the blog would require a bit more work but we’ll add two new layouts, one for portfolio and one for blog in a masonry/pinterest style and our target will be to release them next week.

Thanks for your suggestion, great minds think alike. Check back next week for an update.

Wow – that will be absolutely fabulous. Thanks for such a quick reply – I have finally found the theme that covers it all.

Since you’re willing to create this – could you please create an option without any visible titles in the “off” state, where the grid would simply show the images with just a thin gutter between them, and then the titles would appear on the image “hover” overlay?

That way, the grid would look extremely clean and slick and minimal – metro style, where the overall shape of the grid would finish in a clean rectangle (no uneven edge along the bottom of image grid).

Does that make sense? (If you send me your email, I’ll be happy send you a screen shot of what I’m talking about privately.) I think this would knock it out of the park, seriously – I know of only 1 other theme offering this, but it’s not even in the same league as Metrolium

Thanks so much for your quick reply earlier – your support rocks, along with your super clean, slick template.

I’m certainly open to suggestion, feel free to send over a screenshot and as much detail as you can provide, I think I already know what you mean and it’s certainly doable. I’d probably put an option in the theme though so that it’s optional, as in so that users can choose ‘Display titles’ or ‘Display titles only on hover’, make sense?

I just have to add that offering the extra width extension to 1290 is outstanding, plus offering PSDs for customization, the layer slider parallax effect and the wide banded sections for a “one-pager”/ landing page style, multiple header customization options and the perfectly laid out footer makes Metrolium far superior than any other IMHO. Plus, offering the extensive theme customizer on the demo front end – I can’t think of any other options to include, seriously.

You’ve done a superb job, EudgedLab. I’m a SuperFan of your SuperTheme Metrolium. I’ll be purchasing this for both myself and my new client ASAP.

We’re very close to completing it, hoping to be done today ready for submitting it to ThemeForest for approval.

It has taken us a little longer as we decided to go one better and add optional infinite scroll to both the portfolio and blog so no more page reloads when clicking for more items if you enable it. We’ve also worked in a few other new features and bug fixes which I’ll hold off announcing just yet.

Thanks for your comment on the blog, nice to know someone reads it. =) You’re actually the first person to make a real comment about my post, had around 30 spam comments. I keep intending to write my next piece too but always lacking time. Anyway, glad you liked it. =)

I’ll update you via comment on this post as soon as we put the update through to TF for approval.

Absolutely fabulous. I’m thrilled to hear the great news, and can’t wait to check out the updates – thank you so much for listening and for fulfilling my theme dreams (although, I do understand you already had plans on developing and releasing my masonry requests – a testament to your good taste and awareness of current market needs/demand).

While I could’ve designed my own HTML5 site – or seven – in the amount of time I’ve been cruising Themeforest for the perfect WordPress theme (the past 7 months straight, daily), I’ve never personally dev’d a site for WordPress itself. Due to my need for a robust blog platform, I was determined to find the perfect WordPress theme that would help me save dev and update time for my personal consulting site, now that I’m chained to my desk 24/7 as the Email Marketing Director at one of the top 5 social media companies.

Thanks for your comments, glad that you’re happy and do let me know what you think to the new layouts. They’re quite simplistic and minimal, in keeping with our theme and there’s probably more we can do with them like adding a filter similar to the portfolio but with blog categories, transition/animation and hover effects. Unfortunately I only read your email with suggestions late last night, after we’d already designed and developed our version so wasn’t able to take much from them on this iteration but that’s not to say we can’t look to improve ours in the future.

You’ve got me intrigued as to who you work for now too and your email address gave away no clues, perhaps you’d like to send me some more info and/or a preview of your own website once you’re ready to, I’d love to see it and read more.

Please do share your quotes on the blog, looking forward to reading them. I’ll try to find some time this next week to write my second blog post too and would welcome your feedback once it’s published. Still thinking about our content strategy too to be honest as we not only have theme clients but also do bespoke work and have a number of our own projects so it’s a question of how to write content that caters for all three.

Anyway, I’ll reply to your email asap, pretty busy schedule today but as said, I did read it late last night and plan to look back over the examples you sent, see if there’s anything we can take from them to improve our implementation. Once I’ve looked over them I’ll get back to you with my thoughts.

1) Yes, Metrolium comes with both the parent and child theme. Providing that you use the child theme, you’ll be able to safely upgrade without risk of losing any changes as they sit in the child which I’m sure you know already.

2) The theme is not built on bootstrap. We didn’t intend to use a lot from bootstrap so it would have been quite wasteful to include it adding extra unnecessary bloat to the theme. Instead, we’ve written our own bespoke responsive grid and all element styles too, Metrolium is truely bespoke and unique.

3) Do you mean the sub title? If so, yes you can hide it with the click of a button. Metrolium was built with complete flexibility in mind and therefore most things can be hidden by a click of a button, no code needed. If you take a look at the demo site and click the cog button on the left you’ll see most of the options that Metrolium comes with.

4) Yes, documentation can be found at www.euged.com/documentation/metrolium so feel free to check it out before you buy. To copy the same setup as the demo you could either import the included XML files or it you look at the example templates in our documentation you’ll see the exact content you need to recreate pages seen in the demo.

The portfolio archive page (the grid of portfolio items with filter) only works as you see it today. However, we are planning to add more layouts in the future, two are planned for next week in fact, a new masonry/pinterest style layout for both the portfolio and blog.

The portfolio as it stands doesn’t support video on the grid but we will look into this for a future update.

1. I Would like to know how I can position my logo in sticky header version 1, because if I use margins, it doesn’t look good in responsive. I Want the logo to be on top and in the middle of the menu, because it doesn’t fit otherwise (navigation bar too big). I can’t go with header style 3 because i need the sticky navigation.

2. Is it possible to further style the navigation bar and add my classes to it, images etc… There is nothing in style.css

3. Site wide CTA bar, I would like to hide it on my contact page; how can I do that?

4. Also is it possible to add class=bgscroll for example to shortcodes, because I have a parallax plugin

If you could please register on our support forum and copy/paste your questions there and someone will help you shortly.

When posting, if you could also provide more detail about question 4 as there’s not enough to completely understand the issue, perhaps include a link to your website so that we can see what you’re trying to do with the navigation/header too, or screenshots.

Hey it would be a great idea to allow shortcodes in the Site-wide CTA, or to widgetize it. I’m trying to put a newsletter subscription in there, generated by the MyMail extension, and it’s a nightmare. They allow us to use a shortcode to generate the subscription form, or a widget. But the shortcode doesn’t work in the CTA bar so I had to copy and paste the HTML code from the widget that I temporarily displayed on my blog sidebar.

So far it’s working but I can’t center the whole thing because I had to use float;left properties…

That would be so much easier if I could just put the shortcode instead of HTML. And even easier if we could put widgets there, don’t you think ?

Or if you have a solution for me, that would be awesome !

(sorry I’d like to use your support forum, but I may be blind or stupid, but I can’t find the button or link to post a new question…)

If you could please copy/paste your question into a post on the forum and we’ll discuss your issues in more detail and help you out if we can, perhaps in a better position to answer if you also provide us a link to your site when you post your question so that we can see the issue.

Thanks. Learned to live with the contact bar in the sticky header, hope for retro-fitted template builder, could really use the pricing table. But overall, I am really stunned by the look and feel of the template and am excited to now get to work with it!

If you make sure to register on our support forum and leave the communication checkbox ticked on sign up then we’ll keep you up to date with new features and releases via email, and obviously feel free to contribute any other ideas you may have on the forum too.

Hi, I am thinking of purchasing this theme as it looks great. The only thing I wanted to ask is that, when I am trying it out if locks for a second or so while loading and not sure why that would be or if it’s just my browser. Does that happen to anyone else?

This could be a number of things including DNS lookup time, your distance from the server we host our website and demo on (London, UK), your internet speed, the route between you and our server, the number of visitors to Metrolium at the time of your visit, the stress our server is under at the time of your visit, i could go on and on.

What I would say is that if you have any websites running on your web host / server already and they’re fine, so will Metrolium be once you host it yourself. There are certainly no issues with the theme that would cause a delay or lock up as you described.

As for the comments, I do remember an earlier version of our XML did include a number of comments that were left on our online demo but I do believe that the XML was replaced for a version without those comments but I will double check and update the theme if required.

Do make sure that you’re running the latest version of Metrolium which is currently v1.1.1, and I do apologise if the comments caused you any inconvenience, as said, I will double check our XML files.

Metrolium is a very good theme. What is even better is the support from Euged Labs. Amazing response time from the team there, so hats off!

I like the flat design and the minimalistic and clear approach in this theme. I am sure that as the team evolves the theme with some additional functionality (I can think of page builder, integration with WooCommerce, some additional customization capabilties)it can easily become a best seller.

Hi, love your theme. It took me a little while to wrap my head around it but now I understand it’s much more intuitive.
I just couldn’t figure out how you did the “the blog” page.
http://www.euged.com/demo/metrolium/blog/
I imported the demo content and the page was blank. And I couldn’t find anything on documentation.
What am I missing here?

The sliders included are plugins called LayerSlider and RevSlider. I’ve had a quick look at the online demos and it doesn’t seem like you can automatically feed your latest posts to either of them although I could be wrong but nothing obvious to me I’m afraid.

Sorry that I couldn’t provide more information on this, do let me know if you have any other questions.

Purchased the theme and are very close to launching our corporate website with it. Love how it looks and functions. Quick question: is there any support for using .png files in the [person] shortcodes?

If you take a look at the shortcode reference section of our documentation and find the [person] shortcode you’ll notice that one of the parameters you can pass is image which allows you to pass an url to the image which can be any format you like.

I hope this helps and that I’ve understood your question correctly. If you do have any other questions, please head over to our support forum where there’s already a wealth of information and of course we’re also there to help answer new questions too. =)

If you go to the blog too (http://www.euged.com/demo/metrolium/blog/) and find the same post which is third from the top, you’ll notice that gallery posts in the archive view actually display all images in a gallery as a slider, notice the arrows.

Also, we’re adding more improvements to the theme and gallery this week including lightbox support so that you have the option for photos to open in a lightbox rather than a new page as they do currently.

Hi,
Just purchased your theme and want to use in a testing environment first, with the included plugins do they have a url locked license or can I just transfer over to live environment without any worries?

I have replied to your email about the 2 column masonry style with sidebar. As for share features on the blog, we didn’t bother because there’s plenty of plugins out there that add this functionality and we didn’t want to reinvent the wheel.

thanks for that awesome theme!
i have a question for gallery postings: how do i get those galleries? i tried to insert a wp-gallery, single images, a slider… everything! but it just won’t work to look like this:
http://www.euged.com/demo/metrolium/type/gallery/

second:
how exactly is the shortcode, which lets the blog-site look like in your example? with preview image/video etc.

i searched for this questions in your online documentation but i did not find the right answers.